Alarm clock dropped inside wall goes off daily for 13 years

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania homeowner is reminded once a day that he wasn’t as clever as he hoped.

Jerry Lynn says that an alarm clock he lost inside the wall of his home rings at 7:50 p.m. each day — during Daylight Savings Time — and at 6:50 p.m. otherwise.

Lynn says he tied the clock to a string in September 2004 and lowered it into the wall through a vent in his Ross Township home near Pittsburgh. Lynn set the alarm hoping noise would help him drill a hole in the right spot through which to pass a TV cable. But the battery-operated clock fell off the string and has stayed inside the wall ever since.

Lynn has been unable to retrieve the clock and figured the battery would eventually die.